From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 17:50:19 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: news entry for issue19081 fix.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.8~149
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7902f8ddaca62dc21675644e388e78b50d6d7e9c;p=python

news entry for issue19081 fix.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index cee61ba539..a08a95b437 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ What's New in Python 2.7.7?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #19081: When a zipimport .zip file in sys.path being imported from
+  is modified during the lifetime of the Python process after zipimport has
+  already cached the zip's table of contents we detect this and recover
+  rather than read bad data from the .zip (causing odd import errors).
+
 - Raise a better error when non-unicode codecs are used for a file's coding
   cookie.